BronxWench

Hi, and welcome back! Your account is still there. It’s just that we’ve had a few updates to the archive code since you last logged in, and you need to reactivate. We have a FAQ that explains what you need to do: http://www2.adult-fanfiction.org/forum/topic/29595-existing-users-logging-in-for-the-1st-time-in-the-new-system/ It should go fairly smoothly, but if you run into any issues reactivating and making a new password, let us know. One of the bigger changes was to passwords. We now need them to be between 8-12 letters and/or numbers long, with no special characters or punctuation permitted. They’re still case sensitive, though, so if you use a capital letter anywhere, you’ll always have to use that capital letter when entering the password. You can post here on the forums, or you can email us directly at tos_team@adult-fanfiction.org. (We’ve had a change of domain as well, from adultfanfiction.net to adult-fanfiction.org.)

It’s entirely possible you’re overthinking this. Go with hamlet and move on, that’s my advice.

We do have a couple of author categories: Anita Blake, Antonia Forest, Lemony Snicket, and Poppy Z Brite, so there’s clearly precedent. It’s not a bad idea, but I think it would take a bit of work to move the existing stories based on those authors’ works to the new categories. Staff/manpower to do that would be the bigger concern rather than creating the categories.

Give the author time. No doubt, there’s tweaking and editing being done, because we all find little things we’d love to fix almost as soon as we’ve posted something.

The limitations on the fields are 240 characters for the disclaimer (not words) and 600 characters for the summary. That would be the reason for the system’s rejection.

Hi! We don’t have an option to label a story as a crossover. In the single fandom subdomains, there is usually a category for crossovers. What we ask is that you place the story in the subdomain where it is set, so if your story is going to occur primarily in the Harry Potter ‘verse, it would go in that subdomain, in the Crossovers category. If it’s set in the Twilight ‘verse, it would go in Books, in the Twilight Series category, which has a further subcategory for Crossovers. Both fandoms would need to be disclaimed since you’re using elements from both. So, a disclaimer would read something like “I do not own Harry Potter or Twilight, and I make no profit from this story.” or words to that effect. I hope this helps!

I had no idea spiders could be oogui eaters. He needs his own YouTube channel!

Excellent news! Thank you!

I’ve forwarded the emails to The Chemist, but I’ve not heard anything from the member either in response to your emails. Sorry!

Send me an email to tos_team@adult-fanfiction.org, and I’ll forward it on for you. Just make a note in the subject line that it’s for TheChemist.

As far as I can determine, the story was removed by the author, C_Wade.

I’m going to repeat what we say at the top of each search topic, for anyone who needs a refresher: If you know the piece of fiction that someone is searching for is removed from the site, but you retained a personal copy, please do not pass the story around. If the story is taken down either by the Author or Moderator staff there is a reason behind it that must be respected.

I did forward your email to TheChemist, and if I get a response, I’ll post it here for you, with emails blanked out to keep the spambots at bay.

If the name is ambiguous, using the character’s name is also a way around things.

I started playing D&D in college, when there were no editions. We “borrowed” probability dice from the math department, and we had legal pads and pencils. There was no Internet, no pdfs of rulebooks, nothing. I swear the DM was making it up as he went along, but it was insanely fun, and as a bonus, if you died, you could wander down the hall in the student center and see if the vets had any wine.

I still get mentally stuck back in Edition 3.5 myself. Elderspawn plays regularly and I’m just as lost with what Wizards of the Coast has done to my beloved Seldarine...

We don’t give out email addresses of our members, unless of course the member has made the email public on their profile. What we can do is forward an email from you to us. You can reach us at tos_team@adult-fanfiction.org, and we can forward that email to TheChemist in hopes that you’ll get a response.

Oh, D&D definitely wouldn’t need smartphones, I agree. A complete waste of time for the gnomes who’d have designed them, and the followers of Oghma and Shaundakul who would design many of the apps for the devices. Nope. Wizards are faster and much more efficient. (Then again, in the webcomic Rusty & Co., someone did have a smartphone. It used Andruid...)

As far as I can determine, the stories were removed by the author. I can find no record of any staff action taken recently which would account for stories being removed or hidden.

That’s possible… phones could be a form of communications portal… I like it!

I can’t remember if Diablo has the equivalent of the D&D mephits—wee demons that use various elemental attacks like fire, acid, electricity… I know Diablo 3 has those desert serpents that possess an electrical attack. Maybe they could be harvested to recharge things? Phones are just damned puzzling, though. I can’t really thing of an equivalent method of long-distance communication that works in a Diablo-like setting.

If we believe the plagiarism was a deliberate act of theft, we would delete the account entirely and ban the user. We take it quite seriously here, since it is theft of intellectual property, and illegal. In this case, I do believe there was a genuine confusion as to the definition of what constitutes a work in the public domain, which is why I’m not calling for account deletion and a ban. The member profile has been edited by me to remove any mention of sending in stories to be posted here on AFF. Other sites may allow members to post work written by other people, but we do not, as we clearly state in our Terms of Service. While we do allow stories based on works in the public domain, I rely on the standards discussed more in depth here to determine whether or not a work is indeed in that category.

Exactly. I’ll need to fix that as well, but not today!

Honestly, I’ve never understood why people think it’s okay to post someone else’s work to begin with, whether or not they thought it was free to use. I mean, the point of writing is to actually write something.

The plagiarized story and the misplaced story are gone. The Non-Fic tag has been removed from the first story since it’s placed in a fiction category.